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by codingmyway 10y ago
I should add that the profit motive isn't unique to the right, the left just gain viewers through either comedy and satire or mainstream consumerism, which is more acceptable but still doesn't necessarily incentivize the truth, es
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I heard there is a bit of a tech scene in Pai. There wasn't a few years ago when I was there but that is somewhere I could imagine working remotely from.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I'm contemplating this right now. I work in London because the extra money over working elsewhere in the UK more than pays the rent and I know people here now. I if lived further out and commuted then the cost of transport would almost
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Why not produce useful software needed by wider society as part of the course? Whether it's open source which will give them the github credentials or something like CodeForAmerica that fixes needed public works. The problem is the dog
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by codingmyway 10y ago
This is a particularly american problem. It's not Alex Jones or Breitbart or Hannity or Limbaugh it's the fact that profits come before truth and making money by appealing to human nature through click bait, fear mongering, exagge
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I see two reasons for this: 1) Bitcoin transaction fees increasing and ETH being the main alternative available on Coinbase, even though ETH is not meant to be a currency, more like AWS credits, and its supply isn't fixed so isn't
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by codingmyway 10y ago
It varies. Personally if I am renting I want to minimize that outgoing when saving for a nicer place to buy. I came close but quantitative easing killed that for me but the intention was there and now I'm back renting a cheap a place t
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by codingmyway 10y ago
The rents mostly go to the banks, who create the loans out of nothing and win either way. Your rent might go to a landlord but to compete in the bidding on the building he must lend as much as anyone else from a bank. That ability to mortga
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Yeah, and then stamping a never ending copyright on it.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Agreed. This is the late 90's web stage of let's try using the block chain for everything, even though it is vastly inefficient. The hype will die for a while as fees get too expensive then might come back later once the infrastru
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Asics can't be redirected to different alt coins that have a different proof of work. They will run to recoup the costs. That is why bitcoin will be more secure even if prices and transactions drop from a move to an alt. Miners are pla
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Getting all the selfish incentives of stakeholders and attackers to enable and secure something like Bitcoin is the example. Whether it works out in the end or not is an open question. The current blockage could a be a failure of the game t
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I didn't write the and test code myself so you can label that as appealing to authority all you like but I have looked into it and understand the benefits of moving the witness to a subtree of the merkle root so that it can be dropped
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by codingmyway 10y ago
This political argument that it's all just a plot by Blockstream is what is causing the division where the technical benefits of segwit are clear to anybody who knows what they are talking about. As soon as it became about people and B
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Without a blocksize limit then block space has unlimited supply so the price will be zero. Miners will get LOWER fees so if they think lightning is their enemy and Unlimited is their friend then they don't understand economics. Those w
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by codingmyway 10y ago
That is part of it. I think some miners are against any increase because it will lower fees. Without a blocksize limit fees tend to zero, which is fine while there is the block reward but they still want to milk the congestion fees. To say
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Propaganda has always been around, along with sensationalism by MSM as anybody who's ever read about themselves in a paper can tell you. What is new is Clickbait news, which has different motivations and different effects. After seeing
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by codingmyway 10y ago
There are plenty of things that affect happiness and therefore productivity if you follow their assertion. The stress of trying to pay rent in tech cities being one I can think of. Would be interesting to see if developers in more easy goin
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I also think UI will be one of the first areas to be partially automated, or web based at least, partly because there is so much public data to consume and it all fits common patterns which is just what AI is good at. The actual businesses
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by codingmyway 10y ago
When social context matters so much I wonder how they measure things like this. Just the act of getting to know a therapist will reduce anxiety and in the situation you'll be comfortable so there is little value measuring improvements
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I've made the most in % terms on the small amounts I bought just to play with the technology rather than any investment plan. First on Etherium then on Stratis, being mainly a .Net dev. On that basis for HN types your curiosity might b
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Isn't it about the increase in debt? Taking on debt creates money. In the 70's Nixon let loose on the constraints to increased government debt, creating government driven inflation. Workers then had more power to demand higher wag
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Marginally, yes he's loaded but Facebook didn't destroy thousands of smaller mom and pop businesses and concentrate whole sectors of the economy like Amazon, or hundreds of newspapers and advertising agencies like Google. Facebook
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Not so sure about this line: "bitcoin is closing the year on a high note, surviving its (expected) mining changes with grace" Adoption of technical improvements like segwit has become more of a political game than ever with less t
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by codingmyway 10y ago
The occupy movement should have occupied all vacant buildings, a lot of which were effectively owned by banks, and demanded the return of squatters rights. Next time, get it right
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Since learning it I've thought that REST is really aimed at humans. It's all well being able to navigate state but unless it knows what to do with a given state beforehand it's not much use to a machine, other than perhaps to
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Exactly, Trump supporters are going to be really disappointed
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I hear so many educated Trump supporters projecting their own largely sensible wishes and plans onto him since he has no coherent plan and essentially promised nothing, except to build a wall. Not sure he's going to achieve that much.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I hear so many more educated Trump supporters projecting their own largely sensible wishes and plans onto him since he has no coherent plan and essentially promised nothing, except to build a wall. Not sure he's going to achieve that m
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Those wanting a unlimited block size increase are mostly less technical and don't understand the difference between expanding and scaling. If it slows nodes down exponentially as the chain gets too big then that isn't scalable.

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